Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The word “crisis” is from the Greek, meaning “a moment to decide.” The recurrent moments of crisis and decision when understood, are… — Jill Purce Copy Share Image
“And now the initiation was begun. She was to read, to study, to depict by a gesture, a look, the passions she… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
Lucifer comes to give to us the final gift of wholeness. If we accept it then he is free and we are… — David Spangler Copy Share Image
Gangs have always existed - they are primarily a community a young men trying to find intensity, meaning, a path to the… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinister current is to break… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“In Demons of the Flesh, Zeena describes how Shiva and Shakti are actually ‘two sides of the same deity’. The goal of… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
problematic within post-Reformation dogmatics. Is faith something I 'do' to earn God's favour, and, if not, what role does it play? Once… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jnana is given neither from outside nor from another person. It can be realised by each and everyone in his own Heart.… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
[Keeping kosher was] the symbol of an initiation, like the insignia of a secret brotherhood, that set her apart and gave her… — Jessie Sampter Copy Share Image
The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The Masonic movement... is the custodian of the law; it is the home of the Mysteries and the seat of initiation. It… — Alice Bailey Copy Share Image
There is no question, therefore, that the work to be done in familiarising the general public with the nature of the Mysteries… — Alice Bailey Copy Share Image
“But we left camp after a while and we was driving in a real spooky place cause all the roads up near… — Timothy Victor Richardson Copy Share Image
Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“The term initiation in the most general sense denotes a body of rites and oral teachings whose purpose is to produce a… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials. — Isabelle Adjani Copy Share Image
“The god Seth awakens through harsh disillusionment or scorn or through the shattering of everything that you thought was real being torn… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
To me YES, AND means don't be afraid to contribute. Always make sure you're adding something to the discussion. Your initiations are… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“Our whole journey into authentic masculinity centers around those cool-of-the-day talks with God. Simple questions change hassles to adventures; the events of… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
What I like about the Pleiadians is that they work and meet each person where they are in their own evolution. Every… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
The scariness of manhood to males may be symbolically seen in the many stories of indigenous Australian boys who ran away and… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“Funerals consist of older generations initiating the younger into another adulthood. Filling spaces of the one passed.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
When government does more than guard against the initiation of force, inevitably it becomes a means of theft and bamboozlement. — Donald J. Boudreaux Copy Share Image
“It has been well and truly said that in the exoteric church the ceremony is performed by one person for the benefit… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
Let me make my point about Vietnam. When the Nixon initiation came into office, there were 550,000 Americans in combat. And ending… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“to enter into a journey of initiation with God requires a new set of questions: What are you trying to teach me… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious:… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you join the Parachute Regiment they send you on training and initiation exercises. One of the tasks is to accept and… — Matthew Parris Copy Share Image
“There are Tantrics who deliberately break taboos and social norms and then there are other Tantrics who, by means of their practices… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
The Devil' is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes... This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man,… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
If you ask an Auin Bushman what realty happens at the puberty ceremonials, he will tell you, "We dance." In the initiation… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
I fished a little while ago with a man, not in his first youth, who had wasted the flower of his life… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
![“[Keeping kosher was] the symbol of an initiation, like the insignia of a secret brotherhood, that set her apart and gave her freedom and dignity. Every law whose yoke she accepted willingly seemed to add to her freedom: she herself had chosen . . . To enter that brotherhood. Her Judaism was no…” quote by Jessie Sampter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/333/jessie-sampter-69040_accepted_keeping-kosher-was-the-symbol-of-an-init_2476612.jpg)
